Kiran Achut Kumar, MD
Radiation Oncologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (2013)
- Internship
- Presence Resurrection Medical Center (2014), Transitional Year
- Residency
- Stanford University Medical Center (2018), Radiation Oncology
- Board Certification
- American Board of Radiology/Radiation Oncology
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Radiation Therapy for Lymphoma
- Radiation Therapy for Leukemia
- Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors
- Radiation Therapy for Spinal Cord Cancer
- Pediatric Brain Tumors
- Lymphoma Treatment
- Myeloma Treatment
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Brain Metastases
- Brain and Spinal Cord Cancer
- Gliomas
- Meningiomas
- Skull Base Tumors
- Pituitary Tumors
- Acoustic Neuromas
- Sarcoma
- Cancerous (Malignant) Bone Tumors
- Skin Cancer
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Publications
- Long-Term Update of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Benign Spinal Tumors. Chin AL, Fujimoto D, Kumar KA, Tupper L, Mansour S, Chang SD, Adler JR, Gibbs IC, Hancock SL, Dodd R, Li G, Gephart MH, Ratliff JK, Tse V, Usoz M, Sachdev S, Soltys SG Neurosurgery 2018 Nov
- Prognostic Value of Pretreatment FDG-PET Parameters in High-dose Image-guided Radiotherapy for Oligometastatic Non-Small-cell Lung Cancer. Chin AL, Kumar KA, Guo HH, Maxim PG, Wakelee H, Neal JW, Diehn M, Loo BW, Gensheimer MF Clinical lung cancer 2018 09 19 5 e581-e588
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Professional Activities
- American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (2013)
- American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO) (2015)
- Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) (2014)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) (2019)
- Children’s Oncology Group (COG) (2019)
- International Society for Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) (2019)
- Pediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS) (2019)
- International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group (ILROG) (2018)
- The Radiosurgical Society (RRS) (2017)
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Awards and Honors
- RSS Annual Scientific Meeting Award for Best Oral Presentation and Best Medical Resident Abstract 2017
- Stanford Honors Certificate in Medical Education 2017
- University of Chicago Department of Radiation Oncology Award 2013
- ASTRO Annual Meeting Scientific Abstract Award 2012
- Calvin Fentress Research Fellowship Award 2012